[-] bird@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Mouse would escape the tape and stick its head through the ring. Then you have an invisible mouse to rule them all to deal with. The whole of Middle Earth would be absolutely overrun with mice

[-] bird@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Technically it would be low cal compared to a normally sized calzone just because of being significantly smaller.

[-] bird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's our secret, we're always hurting.

[-] bird@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

So reddit is bad because you can't break a subreddit's rules without getting called out? Also, sarcasm with 0 context, especially in text form, should always be assumed that it will not be interpreted as sarcasm. That title alone in the subreddit could absolutely be considered clickbait.

[-] bird@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Pixel 6 ushered in three years? I did some searching and it looks like every Pixel all the way back to Pixel 1 received three full years of updates. Is it just the additional two years of security updates that's new?

[-] bird@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Three Minutes: A Lengthening - documentary about three minutes of recovered video footage from a small town in Poland in the late 1930's. The scope of it started small and it expanded continuously throughout the movie. It was really impactful. The only footage shown is the video footage itself, the narrator is Helena Bonham Carter. I highly recommend it if you like documentaries.

Let The Right One In - 2008 low budget Swedish horror film. I'd always heard it was well regarded and it did not disappoint one bit. Delightfully tense, cathartic, and unsettling.

[-] bird@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

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[-] bird@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago

LOL I totally identify with this. I don't remember upvoting, but it looks like I already did. Just un-upvoted and re-upvoted for good measure.

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submitted 1 year ago by bird@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Back in the ole Reddit days of ereyestermonth I had a habit of closing my reddit app of choice on my phone, and then as a reflex immediately open that same app back up.

The issue has evolved for me on Lemmy. I have two Lemmy apps on my home screen. I was using Voyager before Sync was released and then I started using Sync. But I also kept Voyager on my home screen since Sync didn't support posts when the beta was originally released. But now I'm too lazy to remove it. I still like Voyager anyway.

You see where this is going. I'm now stuck in a loop where I'm closing one app and opening the other, just to read through the exact same posts.

Send help. Or not. This is fine. I'm going to take a break from Lemmy for the rest of the day.

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[-] bird@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That may be true for some people individually, but I believe if no one at a company is able to build any connection (even on a professional level of base rapport ), that's much more an indicator of the company's failures to build a proper company culture that supports that.

People have been making close friends over the Internet with zero in-person interactions for decades now. And that's even without video chat being the primary way of doing it. I work 100% remote at a company with ~2500 employees. I'm pretty introverted, but I've managed to make a few friends mostly over slack that I would ask if they wanted to grab a drink or something if I were traveling through their area. There's no pressure or expectation of that from the company, there's no "we're family" nonsense, they've just created a company culture where that can happen.

[-] bird@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Plex is truly great! I forgot to mention it streams music in addition to movies and tv. The Plex web app is not particularly fantastic for streaming music, but they have a separate app called Plexamp that is really great. So all in all you can use this setup to eliminate all your streaming subscriptions.

[-] bird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's actually surprisingly easy! I've done it a few times for my other knives because my wife is morally opposed to having a knife block on the counter. So our knives go in the drawer each with a custom sheath to protect the blade.

All you need is two pieces of wood, each with at least one good flat face. You trace the knife on both sides of one of the pieces of wood. One tracing will be the inside of the sheath (the flat face if you're not using s4s), the other tracing will be on the outside which you'll use as a reference to shape the sheath. You then chisel or route where the knife will go, place the knife in it to make sure it fits properly. Glue the flattest face of the other board to the side you just routed. Once the glue is cured, use a belt sander to give the sheath the general shape you want, then orbital or hand sand to get it nice and smooth. Apply finish of choice, then you're good to go.

[-] bird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's just a little guy! The original knife I started with had a 10" blade and was terribly unbalanced. It also didn't have a full tang so it would easily flex where the handle met the blade. So I essentially shortened the knife so that I could cut a proper tang out of a portion of the original blade.

I always hated how small paring knives are, so I really like this size for doing a lot of things I would normally use a paring knife for while still feeling nice to hold and being a bit more versatile.

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submitted 1 year ago by bird@lemm.ee to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

Wanted to have a kitchen knife I didn't care about beating up to take camping and such. My wife grabbed a junk kitchen knife from a thrift store and I went to town on it.

I cut the whole thing down in order to have a proper tang. I made scales and a sheath out of poplar which I then finished with Tried and True (polymerized linseed oil with beeswax).

Did the majority of the work with an angle grinder, hand saws, and a bench top belt sander. Was going to hand chisel the inside of the sheath, but I got lazy and did it with a router.

Overall I'm happy with how it turned out. This is my first time doing any sort of "knife making" and I like how it looks. I definitely do not expect it to hold an edge well at all.

In the end the project was a failure because now I DO care about this knife because of the time I put into it.

Here's the full gallery: https://pixelfed.social/p/jaybird/597265855612303197

P.S. please let me know if there's a proper way to link a pixelfed post on Lemmy

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